3GWeek’s new theme launched!
By Budi Putra | May 23, 2008
Just want to share with all of you, my gadget blog, 3Gweek already launched its new design. Thanks to my colleague Jauhari who has created this theme, hopefully 3Gweek can serve Asia’s mobile news better. We also included a new feature called Tags Clouds in this new face.
From 3GWeek’s About page:
Despite keep monitoring and updating the global news on mobile phone, telco and wireless-related issues, but we are mostly writing on the Asia’s coverages.
As we are living in the Asia’s country, and understood the region’s market better, we hope you can get benefit to read and enjoy our daily updates.
And this is 3GWeek’s latest statistics:
Born in Januari 10, 2006, 3GWeek has gaining a pretty good attention by worldwide audience since then.
Today, this blog attracting about 400+ unique visitors (plus 100+ feedburner subscribers) with an estimation at 700+ pageviews every day (more than 21,000 pageviews per month).
Ah yes. Next month, from June 17-20, I will also make live report about CommunicAsia 2008 from Singapore Expo for 3GWeek readers. Enjoy!
Topics: Blogging, Gadget | 4 Comments »
Grow traffic with Google Friend Connect
By Budi Putra | May 14, 2008
Your site is your social site. You can put any social network service you like in your site or blog and ready to receive incoming traffics from your friends, acquaintances and even strangers from your network.
It’s the idea behind the recently announced-Google Friend Connect. This feature lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.
Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect, any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
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“Google Friend Connect is about helping the ‘long tail’ of sites become more social,” said David Glazer, a director of engineering at Google. “Many sites aren’t explicitly social and don’t necessarily want to be social networks, but they still benefit from letting their visitors interact with each other. That used to be hard. Fortunately, there’s an emerging wave of social standards — OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, MySpace, and others. Google Friend Connect builds on these standards to let people easily connect with their friends, wherever they are on the web, making ‘any app, any site, any friends’ a reality.”
Google Friend Connect is being made available to a limited number of site owners as it approaches general availability. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this short form.
Topics: Social Media | 4 Comments »
You’ve got a Tweet!
By Budi Putra | May 7, 2008
Started over a few weeks ago, I got back to my Twitter account. Despite the fact I have been a member of this service more than a year ago, frankly speaking, I didn’t use it regularly. Twittering two times a month is a kind of luxury thing for me.
So why did I finally come back to Twitter? My answer is simple: I started to use Twitter as well as other social networking service in order to expand my networking, to looking for more friends, to find out more strangers.
What is Twitter?
According to Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Right now, I frequently send my Twitter messages from my BlackBerry Curve 8310 (rather than its web version in PC). I am using both GTalk and TwitterBerry-client.
If you’re on IM all day anyway, why not read and receive Tweets? GTalk is an excellent application for this.
But, for writing Twitter messages, I prefer using TwitterBerry that kindly always reminded me to write less than 140 characters (which GTalk can’t do).
Ah yeah, I am also putting a Twitter badge in the sidebar of this blog.
You can follow me through Twitter by adding this: http://twitter.com/budip .
Happy twittering!
Topics: Social Media, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »
Facebooking every day!
By Budi Putra | April 7, 2008
Not all Internet services could force me to log-in into their applications almost every day except Facebook.
This damn service also forced me to keep connected even in my BlackBerry!
Due to my unlimitted data plan for the powerful device, it means that I always be connected to the Facebook 24 hours a day!
Now, Facebook added another new feature to keep me (OMG) more addicted to: Facebook Chat!
Its blogger said:
This week marks the launch of Facebook Chat—a new way for you to communicate with your friends in real-time. The Wall and Inbox have been the primary ways to communicate, but when more immediacy is necessary—for example when making plans for lunch in half an hour or arguing over a foul call in the NCAA tournament—they might not be enough. Chat aims to fill this gap.
Enough is enough, Mark. Hahahaha. Two thumbs up for all of your team!
All images taken from the Facebook blog.
Topics: Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0 | 15 Comments »
TechCrunch suing Facebook for $25 million, Daily Blog Tips acquired for $168,000!
By Budi Putra | April 1, 2008
It’s the big shots in today’s blogosphere:
- Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages - TechCrunch
- Daily Blog Tips Has Been Acquired for $168,000 - Daily Blog Tips
Happy April Fools! 
Topics: Blogging, Miscellaneous | 2 Comments »
Mixx: When users become the newsroom staff
By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008
“Mixx is your link to the web content that really matters“.
The user-generated-content site, Mixx, doesn’t have an editor who decides the headlines. Instead, users decide all the editorial items!
Here’s how it works:
- Only Super Mixxers can tag a story as “Breaking.” If you haven’t achieved Super Mixxer status, just keep Mixxing: add great content, vote and comment—you’ll get there!
- It takes two to Mixx a Breaking News story. Two Super Mixxers, that is.
- Only a limited number of stories can be in the Breaking News category at any one time, and only for a limited time.
- Once a Breaking News story gets enough votes, it will move over to “Popular,” and to any other category with which it was tagged (entertainment, politics, science, etc.).
It looks like more simple rather than the biggest social news digg.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing how it works out!
Topics: Content, News, Social Media | 2 Comments »
Web 2.0 ‘imperative’ for business: Oracle exec
By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008
Bill Kearney, general manager of enterprise content management at Oracle Asia-Pacific, gave an advise for advertisers to target niche audience: just approach “web 2.0’s commercial appeal”.
There is a fierce reason behind this idea: “Web 2.0 and web content management facilitate collaborative communication,” he explained.
Focusing on the-also-called-new media would be a next-gen strategy to compete and win.
Source: ZDnet via Silicon via eCocoma | Image: GettyImages
Topics: Business, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Voila. Enterprise Wiki for everyone!
By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008
It’s an enterprise wiki with document management capabilities.
Source: Digital Asset Management
Topics: Quicklink, wiki | No Comments »
When web 2.0 meets GPS
By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008
The new gadget offers two-way communication between the device and user, instead of one-way like other devices did. Yes, it can connect your gadget back to the company’s servers over cell phone or Wi-Fi wireless Internet connections.
“There is an element of Web 2.0 meets GPS here,” said Mark Williamson, director of services for Dash. “Others get you from point to point. We can tell you what is around you.”
Source: VentureBeat
Topics: Gadget, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
How much is your blog worth? $150 million!
By Budi Putra | March 27, 2008
Blog would be a worthy property today and in the coming years. If your blogs have your own niche with millions of readers, please be aware, the capital owners will keep eye on you, I promise.
Douglas A. McIntyre wrote about The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs (is it one of them is yours?) and mentioned that The Gawker Properties is worth of $150 million! Others: MacRumors ($85 million), Huffington Post ($70 million), PerezHilton ($48 million) and TechCrunch ($36 million).
Many internet business practitioners started to run their blog networks have one of the exit strategies: selling them or asked the venture capitals to join with. Otherwise, their blogs worth would take their companies values were sky-rocketing and ready to go public (IPO).
Yes, blog is not only a kind of online diary that you handle just in your spare time, but it already shifted to be a serious journal that worth of hundreds thousand million dollar!
It’s a new media, a new business, a new empire where money will go in the coming years.
Topics: Blogging | 3 Comments »